cease /si:s/ I. vi.& vt. 停止（作vt.时可跟不定式、v-ing和普通名词）：I think, and think, and cannot cease from thinking. 我想呀想，无法停下来。They ceased to trouble themselves about him. 他们不再为他的事自找烦恼了。The factory has ceased making bicycles. 工厂停止了生产自行车。The general ordered his troops to cease fire. 将军命令他的队伍停止开火。 ‖II. n. 停止（较正式）：without cease 不断地：We must work like that all our lives without cease. 我们必须如此终生不停顿地工作下去。
［辨析］与stop, halt和cease辨见stop
ceaseless adj.不断的，不停的：Their ceaseless noise annoyed the neighbours.他们吵闹不停,打搅了邻居。This was what they achieved after scores of years of ceaseless labour.这是他们几十年不 懈劳动取得的成果。
ceaselessly adv.不停地
